scholarly journals Memento Vienna: A Case Study in Digital Archives, Georeferenced Data and Holocaust Education

GI_Forum ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Schellenbacher
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archives ◽  
Holocaust Education

Re-Sounding Feminist Radio

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Radio Programming ◽  
Ongoing Development ◽  
The Uk

Digital archives of women's radio programming document histories of feminist activism across different eras in multiple global contexts. Mitchell surveys the ongoing development of these archives, examining their role in “re-sounding” women into history. Women's radio can be a place for individual empowerment, expression and creativity, as well as a space for collective and transnational feminist campaigning and activism. A case study of Fem FM women's community radio archive in the UK demonstrates how archives of feminist radio activism become both a repository and a maker of cultural memory.

scholarly journals The Museum as a collector of vernacular born-digital photographs: a case study of the family camera network collection at the Royal Ontario Museum.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitor Pavão
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archives ◽  
Camera Network ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Digital Photographs ◽  
Home Videos ◽  
Royal Ontario Museum ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship

Active from April 2016 to March 2019, The Family Camera Network was a collaborative project that explored the relationship between family and photography. The project established a public archive at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and The ArQuives. The collection is composed of photographs, albums, home videos and miscellaneous objects. Among the objects collected by the ROM are 126 born-digital photographs. This thesis focuses on the development of cataloguing methods for born-digital vernacular photographs using existing fields in the museum’s collection catalogue, TMS. Through the use of digital metadata, this thesis describes and analysis how information embedded in the born-digital archives can assist in the production of valuable collection records.

scholarly journals Collective Collecting

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Sarah-Mai Dang ◽  
Alena Strohmaier
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Productive Research ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Access To Documents ◽  
Tools And Methods

Massive digitization makes histories appear as well as disappear. While digital archives facilitate the access to documents, recordings, films, and other s urces there is the risk that offlin sources get lost. Thus, the question about how digital collections are generated is essential for today’s film and media historians. Which artefacts are getting digitiz d – and which are not? In addition, for what reasons? Who is responsible for preserving historical material? Moreover, how can we access it? How can we make sense of the abundance of audio-visual sources, which are at the same time ephemeral? In this article, we analyse tools and methods useful for coping with digital archives and databases. Presenting a case study on the Syrian Archive, we discuss how concepts of authenticity and provenance relate to current media practices. We argue that besides posing productive research questions, conducting critical online search becomes more and more important in the humanities. Therefore, we examine not only what but also how the use of audio-visual material affects us. Furthermore, we argue that regarding the abundance of material the practice of curating – of selecting, structuring, and providing access – becomes a key activity in digital media practices.

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